Category: health-fitness

MILTON — Children must be up-to-date with their immunizations to attend school, which begins Aug. 15.

The Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County offers vaccinations on a walk-in basis a…

PACE — Rising Pace High School freshman Lee Miller will attend an Olympic Team USA weightlifting camp July 29.

He received the invitation after his June performance at the Team USA National Youth …

MILTON — Two West Florida Healthcare nurses were honored with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.

Lily Adams, RN (Medical/Surgical Progressive Care Unit), of Milton, and Rebecca Ricks, RN (S…

PENSACOLA — Baptist Health Care has scheduled these free seminars:

Cancer Prevention and Creating a Healthy Lifestyle: July 13 — 11:30 a.m.    lunch ; noon to 1 p.m. seminar, Baptist Towers Medica…

MILTON — As Major League Baseball teams prohibit tobacco use, the Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County and the Florida Department of Health’s Bureau of Tobacco Free Florida are raising a…

MILTON — During July, Sacred Heart Health System will provide free heart-health and osteoporosis screenings at Santa Rosa County locations for adults who are poor, elderly or uninsured.

Heart-heal…

GULF BREEZE — Dr. Joshua G. Hackel, of Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, is championing a new technique to treat the disease of tendons.

“While there have been many advancement…

GULF BREEZE — Sacred Heart Medical Group welcomes Dr. Jeffrey Brinker to its regional network of physicians.

Brinker earned his medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School and completed hi…

GULF BREEZE — Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine now offers an edge implantation treatment for patients with joint cartilage injuries.

The osteochondral allograft transfer system…

MILTON — Kenny Maughon started working with McCombs Electric Co. in 1975.

He started as an electrician helper and advanced rapidly to become one of Escambia and Santa Rosa County’s most dependable…